Performance Pedagogy: Objects, Transfers, Formations
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Performance Pedagogy: Objects, Transfers, Formations
By (Author) Felipe Cervera
Edited by Diana Damian Martin
Edited by Eero Laine
Edited by Theron Schmidt
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
30th April 2026
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Theatre studies
Performance art
Physical Properties
Hardback
272
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
What does it mean to teach an ephemeral object like performance
And what might the teaching of performance have to offer to other kinds of teaching and learning in a changing world
Through posing and seeking to answer these questions, this open-access book urges a reconsideration of the relationship between performance and pedagogy. These questions are urgent in the light of profound changes, both institutional and historical, in the larger scope of higher education and the place performance may have in that setting and its peripheries.
Each of the chapters considers an object and its role in performance pedagogy. The objects range from the concrete to the conceptual and open new ways of considering how to teach performance and how performance teaches.
The book features a unique construction - "interstitial exchanges" - wherein the authors of each chapter pose provocations and responses to each other through short essays between the main chapters, connecting the disparate objects of performance pedagogy and offering dialogues.
In this way, the volume opens conversations beyond performance studies, asking what performance might have to say about the objects all around us that shape our lives in the 21st century.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY NC-ND-4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Author Bio
Felipe Cervera is a performance maker and writer. He is a Lecturer in the Theatre Department at UCLA, USA. His research interests are collaborative academia (teaching and research) and the social production of outer space. He has published widely on these topics in various refereed and non-refereed outlets. He serves as Editor of Global Performance Studies and Associate Editor of Performance Research.
Eero Laine is the Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Theatre and Dance and Assistant
Professor at the University at Buffalo, US. He is the author of Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage (2020) and is one of the co-editors of Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association.
Diana Damian Martin is an artist and researcher. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance Arts at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK, where she leads the BA (Hons) Experimental Arts and Performance course. Her work has been published in Global Performance Studies, Performance Research, Contemporary Theatre Review and Research in Drama Education. She is editor [Margins section] of Performance Philosophy Journal.
Theron Schmidt lives and works on unceded Gadigal land. He teaches creative activism, performance writing, and collaborative practice at UNSW Sydney, Australia, and has published widely on contemporary theatre and performance, participatory art, and politically engaged performance. He is a founding co-convener of the international Performance Philosophy network, co-editor of the journal Performance Philosophy and Associate Editor for Performance Research.
